Can the United States Violently Punish the Assad Regime? Competing Visions (Including That of Anthony D’Amato) of the Applicable International Law
| Autor: | Tom J. Farer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | American Journal of International Law. 108:701-715 |
| ISSN: | 2161-7953 0002-9300 |
| DOI: | 10.5305/amerjintelaw.108.4.0701 |
| Popis: | A regime’s pitiless slaughter of civilians, particularly in an urbanized middle-class country close to Europe, drives segments of the public on both sides of the left-right divide to demand that something be done to quell the killing. When, as in the case of Syria, the regime cannot be shamed, has financial and materiel reserves and backup funding and troops from powerful allies, and has no higher ideal than self-preservation—when, in other words, it is immune to diplomatic and economic pressure—demands for responsive action quickly translate into demands for the use of force, whether direct or by proxy. and because in these enlightened times the projection of force across national borders is widely felt to be legally problematic, determining an appropriate reaction to the slaughter becomes a task for lawyers, no less than strategists. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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